In some places, summer means relaxing on the cape, traveling around the country, or perhaps just working your standard 35 hour work week.   Not in DPL Cambridge — here is means cranking on product, fundraising and hiring!  It’s been an amazing summer for the Dogpatch Cambridge community, and I wanted to share some of the awesome accomplishments and  progress that residents are making.   Folks here are here in Dogpatch every day and they’re killing it.  It shows in the successes listed below, it shows in the energy at the ping pong table, but most importantly – it shows in the strength of the community.  That community is the backbone of Dogpatch and the source of amazing amounts of energy.  Ask any resident, they’ll tell you.  Everyday I’m more amazed at the generosity of our community and to the commitment that they’ve made to each other to help everyone hit the next milepost in stride!
With the addition of Dogpatch in Dublin, the Dogpatch community now extends across 4 cities (and 2 continents!), and at any given time there are over 75 collective companies actively participating in the Dogpatch community (with over 300 participating as alumni!) So what’s been happening  you ask?   A ton!  Here’s the rundown in Cambridge, in no particular order:

Take The interview closed a $775,000 seed round!

Peer Transfer closed a $7.5mm series A round.

Practically Green launched their business product (Practically Green for Business) and was selected to power the SxSW eco-challenge.

YesWare officially launched their Product and closes a $1mm seed round.

Get Privy was named a Mass Challenge top 26 finalist

Locu closed a $600k seed round

Art Venue launched product and was named a Mass Challenge top 26 finalist!

Boundless Learning graduated from Dogpatch and moved into permanent space!

Crave Labs has launched its beta product!

Localytics won IBM smartcamp!

OnChip Power graduated from Dogpatch, and moved into permanent space!

 We’re also thrilled to welcome a few new members of the Dogpatch Community:  (there’s also a bunch we can’t talk about yet!)

BISON is the Boston Illiquid Security Offering Network. A web-based platform designed to promote fundraising and capital formation for alternative investments.

Locu is founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers, Locu is creating the world’s largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data.

ParElastic is an elastic database middle-ware that creates a virtual elastic relational database from a collection of unaffiliated, free-running, industry standard relational databases.

Shareaholic is the the home of the most insanely easy-to-use sharing tools on the web. Reaching over 200 million users. Are you plugged in yet

If you’re in Kendall Square, feel free to swing into 1 Cambridge Center (6^th floor) and say hello!  If you’re interested in joinging the awesome Dogpatch community,  You can apply here.